App Servers Are Dead, Kaazing Warns

Next Generation Web Infrastructure Designed for the Living Web Makes
Legacy Software Obsolete

HTML5 Live Conference 2011

October 19, 2011 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

LONDON & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At today’s HTML5 Live Conference taking place in London, the CEO of
Kaazing said traditional application servers are on their last legs.
With new user demands, a new breed of high performance Web platforms are
making their way into the market and ultimately will supersede
application servers.

“Current application servers were introduced as the market moved from
exchanging static documents over the Web to using the Web as a platform
for commerce,” said Jonas Jacobi, co-founder and CEO of Kaazing. “But
that technology was never designed to deal with live, interactive
communication between Web browsers and back-end servers or the explosive
growth of Web-enabled mobile devices connected to enterprise information
systems.”

Jacobi explained that the legacy Web and the commerce demand opened the
market for application servers. However, this led to a great deal of Web
infrastructure complexity and added substantial burden and operational
cost to IT departments. Today, these limit businesses in the types of
applications and user experiences they can deliver. But, if the
foundation of Web communication is changed to much simpler and leaner
architectures that support new Web standards, data can flow freely from
back-end enterprise information systems to users without complexity,
overhead, and delay. (See graphic at www.Kaazing.com/legacyWebcostandoverhead.)

According to Yuan Weigel, Kaazing vice president of marketing,
“Recognizing the need to evolve the basic Web architecture is critical
because of the explosive growth in mobile, and demand for living,
dynamic, real-time data and applications.”

Today, Kaazing’s platform, designed and built with the emerging new
HTML5 WebSocket standard as a foundation, addresses all of these needs.
Kaazing’s software enables organizations to create and support Web
applications and mobile solutions that provide the same level of
richness and responsiveness as traditional desktop solutions. This is
possible because, in short, the Kaazing platform enables rich,
full-duplex (bi-directional at the same time) enterprise protocols to
extend beyond firewalls all the way to any Web browser or Web-enabled
end point. With the help of Kaazing, applications running directly in
the browser, provide end users the speed, responsiveness, and overall
experience that they’re used to when running traditional desktop
applications.

About Kaazing

Kaazing is the leading company focused on enabling the living Web – the
nearly ubiquitous real time, interactive, collaborative applications
that have become the norm. Kaazing’s founding team played a key role in
defining the WebSocket standard and the Kaazing platform is the world's
only enterprise solution for full-duplex, high-performance Web
communication supporting the HTML5 WebSocket standard. Based in Mountain
View, CA, Kaazing is privately held; some of its customers and partners
include Informatica, TIBCO, and a variety of financial, ecommerce, and
entertainment companies.

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